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I know a lot of us have encountered Netscape and IE problems. Making it work in both browser is a real problem. Is there some websites out there wherein i could find the best resources about this problem. Right now im just being forced to love netscape, please help.

Netscape has problems with tables and problems with CSS. The CSS problem is being fixed as we speak (it already has a little in version 6). The tables problem can be EASILY fixed if you have something in ever table cell, whether it be a space (&nbsp;) or a hidden font character, whatever...

Sites that stick to the standards can look very very nice, I know myself and some of my clients have done some nice looking sites that follow the strict DTDs for HTML4, HTML4.01 and XHTML. The only problem was that as netscape didn't follow the standards as you would expect we had to break a couple of the rules to get it to look exactly the same in netscape.

Which brings me on to the subject of XML, if you use XML you can server your page up with the correct HTML to the correct browser e.g. A WML site for WAP devices, normal HTML for desktops, slimmed down HTML for PDAs etc.

Speaking of tables in netscape and IE. I am redoing one of my sites, switching it all over to be handcoded rather than done with FP and can't get the tables to look the same in IE and Netscape. IE renders that tables the way I want but netscape adds a bunch of extra white space to my nested table that makes up my navigation menu on the left hand side of the page. Does anyone have suggestions to fix this?

i normally post on the php things. but these threads are on areas vital to my site, and i have had to learn and still am learning through my many mistakes.

i wanted to run a map from yahoo on my site to give a neighborhood reference to businesses. yahoo was ok with it as long as i did not modify their button.

i got the map to running fine on my site when seen from my pc (98/2, ie (latest)). about 2 days later, i tried it on another machine pc, nt40, ie and it failed. i hurried home and tried it. it worked.

after some investigation, and a ? to the php forum, i found that my machine was stuffing in some + signs in the address and that the nt40 was not. (my daughters mac also acted the same as the nt40). so i worked the problem and now it is fine. but the view from other platforms is now a priority for me.